Thursday, January 8, 2015
“Sorry Robot” at the New Ohio Theater is a gleeful, ramshackle tale of a not-too-distant future in which machines are both our best friends and mortal enemies.
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Times writers share last chance theater picks, including “Here Lies Love,” David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim’s musical biodrama of Imelda Marcos.
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T. R. Knight stars as an unhappy restaurant manager in Samuel D. Hunter’s “Pocatello,” at Playwrights Horizons.
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Duncan Macmillan and Jonny Donahoe’s “Every Brilliant Thing” offers a long list of reasons not to commit suicide.
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Motus, an Italian troupe, presents “The Tempest” as a full-throated cry to the young and disaffected to get off their collective duffs, shake off their shackles and do something.
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“The Ambassador,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, gives a three-dimensional landscape for Gabriel Kahane’s compositions.
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The year’s peak theatrical performances, among them “An Octoroon” and “On the Town,” had few names to drop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:55PMEric Idle and other Broadway veterans are in the cast of an oratorio with the promisingly Handel-flouting handle of “Not the Messiah (He’s a Very Naughty Boy).”
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In “War,” Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s new racially themed play at the Yale Repertory Theater, family members lash out at one another at a deathbed.
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Bradley Cooper plays the title role in a sturdy Broadway revival of “The Elephant Man,” at the Booth Theater.
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Taking over the role in “Cabaret” at Studio 54, Emma Stone portrays Sally as a desperately energetic flapper whose worst fear is not mattering.
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Members of the Bedlam troupe play multiple roles in productions of “The Seagull” and “Sense and Sensibility.”
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Kneehigh Theater of Britain brings “Tristan & Yseult” to St. Ann’s Warehouse, with characters who gather at the Club of the Unloved.
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“A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations),” the new play by Sam Shepard, opened on Sunday night at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
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Who killed a fighting dog? That’s the mystery involving a sheriff and a backwoods winemaker in “Pitbulls,” at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
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A wealthy suburban couple suddenly find their best friends turning up at their door and seeking sanctuary in Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balance.”
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John Doyle, known for his revivals, has his way with “Allegro,” a 1947 musical that followed Rodgers and Hammerstein’s blockbuster successes “Oklahoma!” and “Carousel.”
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Christopher Marlowe’s “Tamburlaine, Parts I and II,” at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center, makes no apologies for its bloody conquering hero.
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“Punk Rock,” Simon Stephens’s tender, ferocious and frightening play, inspires wonder that anybody makes it to the end of adolescence.
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Thursday, November 13, 2014
After an absence of nearly a decade, the famed chanteuse Lypsinka (John Epperson) returns in a trilogy of shows invoking female impersonation by women themselves.
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That season in hell commonly called mid-adolescence promises to turn especially hot — and chilly — in Simon Stephens’s “Punk Rock.”
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Thursday, November 6, 2014
Bill Pullman, Holly Hunter and Ben Schnetzer star in a revival of “Sticks and Bones,” David Rabe’s 1971 drama about a soldier just home from Vietnam and his inadequately welcoming fami…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMFor “The Object Lesson,” a performance space has been packed with towering cardboard boxes that the audience and the author, Geoff Sobelle, explore in a meditation on human detritus.
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This revival of Tom Stoppard’s Tony Award-winning 1982 play about marital love and infidelity offers some lessons in chemistry.
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Ivo van Hove’s adaptation of Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America” lends a striking universality to its portrait of life and imminent death in the early years of the AIDS epidemic in Ne…
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“The Fortress of Solitude,” a stage musical based on Jonathan Lethem’s novel, opens at the Public Theater.
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A stunning reinvention of Sarah Kane’s play “4:48 Psychosis,” by the TR Warszawa company, is at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
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